I mixed feelings about this.

1. The person should not have been taking pictures and some should have stopped them before LuPone had to do it herself. The house manager should have been the one to kick this person out.

2. An actor should never break character ever. Ever. Who does LuPone think she is to stop the show just because she thinks she can?

3. It's an actor's dream to wish they could do this.

4. LuPone is a wonderful actress but is a horrible monster of a diva. I personally can't stand actors whose heads are so big they take up all the flyspace on stage.

5. If this becomes a common thing that actors will now do, I will barf.

Someone passed out in the audience during a performance I was in. We kept the show going. During the incident, we were given the high sign that everything was being taken care of by the house personnel, we felt confident that we did the right thing. We made an announcement at intermission about it and the show went on.

A friend of mine stopped mid scene during a production to reprimand someone in the audience for talking. I don't blame him for doing it, but it was freakin' awkward. In the end, it made him, the actor, look bad. I can't really describe why, but it made him look like he had a big head.

While it is amusing to listen to someone get their comeuppance, personally, if a had I been at this performance, I would have been really pissed off...at Patti LuPone. Sure, someone taking pictures is distracting but to totally interrupt a performance, in the middle of a song, the LAST song of the show ("Rose's Turn"), ruins the whole damn thing. What, she couldn't have dealt with it for 10 more minutes?

If this person had been taking pictures the whole time, she should have sent a message to the front of the house to deal with it. TOTALLY unprofessional IMO.

The inevitable parody.

lol... that was gayer than gay.

Reminds me of the great Canadian tenor John Vickers during a performance of Tanhhauser (I think) when an audience member was incessently coughing. "Stop your damned coughing" he yelled, the audience applauded and the opera resumed.

I may be in the minority, but I think LuPone showed a complete lack of class and civility. LuP could have easily solved the problem by notifying the management or dispatching an usher to collect the offending camera. If I had been in the audience, I most certainly would have left and asked for my money back, but then, I never would have been at a show starring Patti LuPone in the first place. My God. Never. Never.

Mercy.


Never.

Just a quick note on that point. "Rose's Turn" (the song she was singing) is the last number in the show. She would not have had an opportunity to tell an usher or stage manager until the show was over.

Hence my comment, "What, she couldn't have dealt with it for 10 more minutes?"

Oh, not to me, it makes me horribly uncomfortable.

Me too.

Exactly.


I don't think I would have gone that far, but I would have been uncomfortable and annoyed.


Hehehe



I wonder if the great Mr. Vickers ever had an uncontrollable tickle in his throat?

Several years ago, I had plans with a group of friends to go see Dance Theatre of Harlem at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. Trouble was, I was getting over a cold, which had a nasty lingering cough. I felt fine, but I sounded like Harvey Fierstein. I didn't want to cough and be a distraction during the performance. I went anyway. I loaded my pockets full of lozenges. It was fine.